Three Administration Tools for WebCT Campus Edition

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Thursday, 21 July 2005
This presentation is part of 4: Poster Session
Three Administration Tools for WebCT Campus Edition

Description: At the University of British Columbia, we've created one tool that monitors our WebCT Campus Edition server, and two tools to give data and to assist in the migration from WebCT Campus Edition to WebCT Vista. The WebCT Campus Edition tool monitors the status of the WebCT Campus Edition server and the number of users online. One tool creates the WebCT Vista Learning Context from a CSV file, while the other looks at the readiness of your WebCT Campus Edition for a migration.
Presentation Format: Poster
Topic: Deploying enterprise e-learning: Strategies for success
Target Audience: Senior Administrators, System Administrators
Appropriate Audience Level: Experienced WebCT users
WebCT Version: Both WebCT Vista and WebCT Campus Edition
Abstract Text: This poster session will show off three tools for WebCT CE that UBC has developed. The first tool is the Vista Custom LCH tool. Designed to simplify the process of creating a learning context and to allow administrators to more quickly create a partial learning context, the Vista Custom LCH tool takes a CSV file to construct a new learning context heirarchy XML file for Vista. Unlike the standard migration tool, this allows the creation of partial LCH XML files. The second tool, Vista Migration Reports, scans the WebCT CE filesystem to gain important statistical data that is useful for migration, and general WebCT statistics. It will go through each course to identify which WebCT tools are in each course, and then will list any identified migration problems with those tools. As a statistical program, it also collects a percentage of the frequency each tool is used in all courses. The final tool is one that was presented last year at the 2004 conference in Orlando. The Online Users tool is monitors the CE system, looking at the number of users online, doing quizzes, and other real-time information. With the help of Fly, it can also graph the day-to-day the number of users online in real-time. This tool is currently used at a variety of campuses. All the tools are run in Python, and can all be acquired for free for academic use from the University of British Columbia.

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Description:	At the University of British Columbia, we've created one tool that monitors our WebCT Campus Edition server, and two tools to give data and to assist in the migration from WebCT Campus Edition to WebCT Vista. The WebCT Campus Edition tool monitors the status of the WebCT Campus Edition server and the number of users online. One tool creates the WebCT Vista Learning Context from a CSV file, while the other looks at the readiness of your WebCT Campus Edition for a migration.
Presentation Format:	Poster
Topic:	Deploying enterprise e-learning: Strategies for success
Target Audience:	Senior Administrators, System Administrators
Appropriate Audience Level:	Experienced WebCT users
WebCT Version:	Both WebCT Vista and WebCT Campus Edition
Abstract Text:	This poster session will show off three tools for WebCT CE that UBC has developed. The first tool is the Vista Custom LCH tool. Designed to simplify the process of creating a learning context and to allow administrators to more quickly create a partial learning context, the Vista Custom LCH tool takes a CSV file to construct a new learning context heirarchy XML file for Vista. Unlike the standard migration tool, this allows the creation of partial LCH XML files. The second tool, Vista Migration Reports, scans the WebCT CE filesystem to gain important statistical data that is useful for migration, and general WebCT statistics. It will go through each course to identify which WebCT tools are in each course, and then will list any identified migration problems with those tools. As a statistical program, it also collects a percentage of the frequency each tool is used in all courses. The final tool is one that was presented last year at the 2004 conference in Orlando. The Online Users tool is monitors the CE system, looking at the number of users online, doing quizzes, and other real-time information. With the help of Fly, it can also graph the day-to-day the number of users online in real-time. This tool is currently used at a variety of campuses. All the tools are run in Python, and can all be acquired for free for academic use from the University of British Columbia.